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| Started by | Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh@kathe.in> |
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| First post | 2016-09-05 18:10 +0200 |
| Last post | 2016-09-05 20:30 +0200 |
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Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one! Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh@kathe.in> - 2016-09-05 18:10 +0200
Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one! Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2016-09-05 18:40 +0200
Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one! Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@fastmail.com> - 2016-09-05 18:50 +0200
Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one! Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@fastmail.com> - 2016-09-08 06:10 +0200
Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one! Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-09-08 10:10 +0200
Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one! Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2016-09-08 10:10 +0200
Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one! Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-09-08 10:40 +0200
Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one! Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2016-09-08 10:50 +0200
Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one! David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-09-08 16:20 +0200
Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one! Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-09-08 19:00 +0200
Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one! David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-09-13 20:50 +0200
Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one! Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-09-14 11:50 +0200
Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one! David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-09-15 06:10 +0200
Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one! Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-09-15 11:20 +0200
Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one! rhkramer@gmail.com - 2016-09-15 13:30 +0200
Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one! David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-09-15 18:00 +0200
Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one! Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-09-18 08:00 +0200
Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one! David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-09-15 18:00 +0200
Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one! Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2016-09-14 17:20 +0200
Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one! David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-09-15 06:10 +0200
Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one! David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-09-05 19:10 +0200
Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one! Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-09-05 19:40 +0200
Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one! Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2016-09-05 19:50 +0200
Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one! Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-09-05 20:10 +0200
Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one! Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh@kathe.in> - 2016-09-05 20:30 +0200
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| From | David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> |
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| Date | 2016-09-05 19:10 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <se5zb-6EG-21@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| In reply to | #171782 |
On Mon 05 Sep 2016 at 21:31:20 (+0530), Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > Is there any way to get a regular console under Debian Jessie? > I don't use a GUI, just plain old CLI, and working on hi-res with > "tiny" little fonts is extremely painful. > I have tried playing with "console-setup". No results. I have commands aliased thus in ~/.bashrc alias my-font-tiny="setfont Lat15-Terminus12x6" alias my-font-small="setfont Lat15-Terminus14" alias my-font-medium="setfont Lat15-Terminus20x10" alias my-font-large="setfont Lat15-Terminus24x12" alias my-font-huge="setfont Lat15-Terminus28x14" alias my-font-vast="setfont Lat15-Terminus32x16" $ cat /etc/default/console-setup # CONFIGURATION FILE FOR SETUPCON # Consult the console-setup(5) manual page. ACTIVE_CONSOLES="/dev/tty[1-6]" CHARMAP="UTF-8" CODESET="Lat15" # Make no font changes to allow scrollback of boot screen VIDEOMODE= # The following is an example how to use a braille font # FONT='lat9w-08.psf.gz brl-8x8.psf' FONTFACE="Terminus" FONTSIZE="10x20" $ That sets the default for logging in. Changing the font like this will clear the scrollback buffer (ie everything before the current screenfull) if you are someone who looks at booting messages. I think Terminus comes from package xfonts-terminus. If that's not the case then post again and I will investigate. (I have a lot of fonts installed for both VCs and X, which I do use.) Of course, you can use whatever set of fonts you want, but I find Terminus very clear. However, it's not well endowed for Unicode, so you may want something different. Those aliased commands set each VC independently BTW. Cheers, David.
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| From | Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> |
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| Date | 2016-09-05 19:40 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <se62f-6Q9-55@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| In reply to | #171790 |
On Mon 05 Sep 2016 at 11:58:25 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 05 Sep 2016 at 21:31:20 (+0530), Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > > Is there any way to get a regular console under Debian Jessie? > > I don't use a GUI, just plain old CLI, and working on hi-res with > > "tiny" little fonts is extremely painful. > > I have tried playing with "console-setup". No results. > > I have commands aliased thus in ~/.bashrc > > alias my-font-tiny="setfont Lat15-Terminus12x6" > alias my-font-small="setfont Lat15-Terminus14" > alias my-font-medium="setfont Lat15-Terminus20x10" > alias my-font-large="setfont Lat15-Terminus24x12" > alias my-font-huge="setfont Lat15-Terminus28x14" > alias my-font-vast="setfont Lat15-Terminus32x16" Every time I use the console (which is a lot) I appreciate the existence of the Terminus font and could not do without it. > $ cat /etc/default/console-setup > # CONFIGURATION FILE FOR SETUPCON > > # Consult the console-setup(5) manual page. > > ACTIVE_CONSOLES="/dev/tty[1-6]" > > CHARMAP="UTF-8" > > CODESET="Lat15" > # Make no font changes to allow scrollback of boot screen > > VIDEOMODE= > > # The following is an example how to use a braille font > # FONT='lat9w-08.psf.gz brl-8x8.psf' > FONTFACE="Terminus" > FONTSIZE="10x20" > $ > > That sets the default for logging in. Changing the font like this will > clear the scrollback buffer (ie everything before the current screenfull) > if you are someone who looks at booting messages. > > I think Terminus comes from package xfonts-terminus. If that's not the console-setup-linux provides the .psf files. In all his "playing about" I'm surprised the OP didn't test them with dpkg-reconfigure console-setup > case then post again and I will investigate. (I have a lot of fonts > installed for both VCs and X, which I do use.) Of course, you can use > whatever set of fonts you want, but I find Terminus very clear. > However, it's not well endowed for Unicode, so you may want something > different. > > Those aliased commands set each VC independently BTW. Thanks for the detail. Something to try in the future.
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| From | Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> |
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| Date | 2016-09-05 19:50 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <se6bV-6U4-79@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| In reply to | #171792 |
Have you tried Lucida bright yet? When I was working my employer had a presentation on that font and had all computers switched over to it to improve clarity of writing. Me never having seen anything, I don't know how good that font is. On Mon, 5 Sep 2016, Brian wrote: > Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2016 13:36:05 > From: Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one! > Resent-Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2016 17:36:23 +0000 (UTC) > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > On Mon 05 Sep 2016 at 11:58:25 -0500, David Wright wrote: > >> On Mon 05 Sep 2016 at 21:31:20 (+0530), Mayuresh Kathe wrote: >>> Is there any way to get a regular console under Debian Jessie? >>> I don't use a GUI, just plain old CLI, and working on hi-res with >>> "tiny" little fonts is extremely painful. >>> I have tried playing with "console-setup". No results. >> >> I have commands aliased thus in ~/.bashrc >> >> alias my-font-tiny="setfont Lat15-Terminus12x6" >> alias my-font-small="setfont Lat15-Terminus14" >> alias my-font-medium="setfont Lat15-Terminus20x10" >> alias my-font-large="setfont Lat15-Terminus24x12" >> alias my-font-huge="setfont Lat15-Terminus28x14" >> alias my-font-vast="setfont Lat15-Terminus32x16" > > Every time I use the console (which is a lot) I appreciate the existence > of the Terminus font and could not do without it. > >> $ cat /etc/default/console-setup >> # CONFIGURATION FILE FOR SETUPCON >> >> # Consult the console-setup(5) manual page. >> >> ACTIVE_CONSOLES="/dev/tty[1-6]" >> >> CHARMAP="UTF-8" >> >> CODESET="Lat15" >> # Make no font changes to allow scrollback of boot screen >> >> VIDEOMODE= >> >> # The following is an example how to use a braille font >> # FONT='lat9w-08.psf.gz brl-8x8.psf' >> FONTFACE="Terminus" >> FONTSIZE="10x20" >> $ >> >> That sets the default for logging in. Changing the font like this will >> clear the scrollback buffer (ie everything before the current screenfull) >> if you are someone who looks at booting messages. >> >> I think Terminus comes from package xfonts-terminus. If that's not the > > console-setup-linux provides the .psf files. In all his "playing about" > I'm surprised the OP didn't test them with > > dpkg-reconfigure console-setup > >> case then post again and I will investigate. (I have a lot of fonts >> installed for both VCs and X, which I do use.) Of course, you can use >> whatever set of fonts you want, but I find Terminus very clear. >> However, it's not well endowed for Unicode, so you may want something >> different. >> >> Those aliased commands set each VC independently BTW. > > Thanks for the detail. Something to try in the future. > > --
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| From | Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> |
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| Date | 2016-09-05 20:10 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <se6vf-7gH-5@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| In reply to | #171793 |
On Mon 05 Sep 2016 at 13:47:04 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Have you tried Lucida bright yet? When I was working my employer had a > presentation on that font and had all computers switched over to it to > improve clarity of writing. Me never having seen anything, I don't know how > good that font is. Lucida bright is a font I associate with Latex (Tex). I doubt it is suitable for pure console use. There are contraints which the console imposes which, even with a framebuffer, limit the type of font which can be used. When it comes to it, a terminal under X does much better. > On Mon, 5 Sep 2016, Brian wrote: > > >Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2016 13:36:05 > >From: Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> > >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > >Subject: Re: Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one! > >Resent-Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2016 17:36:23 +0000 (UTC) > >Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > > >On Mon 05 Sep 2016 at 11:58:25 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > >>On Mon 05 Sep 2016 at 21:31:20 (+0530), Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > >>>Is there any way to get a regular console under Debian Jessie? > >>>I don't use a GUI, just plain old CLI, and working on hi-res with > >>>"tiny" little fonts is extremely painful. > >>>I have tried playing with "console-setup". No results. > >> > >>I have commands aliased thus in ~/.bashrc > >> > >>alias my-font-tiny="setfont Lat15-Terminus12x6" > >>alias my-font-small="setfont Lat15-Terminus14" > >>alias my-font-medium="setfont Lat15-Terminus20x10" > >>alias my-font-large="setfont Lat15-Terminus24x12" > >>alias my-font-huge="setfont Lat15-Terminus28x14" > >>alias my-font-vast="setfont Lat15-Terminus32x16" > > > >Every time I use the console (which is a lot) I appreciate the existence > >of the Terminus font and could not do without it. > > > >>$ cat /etc/default/console-setup > >># CONFIGURATION FILE FOR SETUPCON > >> > >># Consult the console-setup(5) manual page. > >> > >>ACTIVE_CONSOLES="/dev/tty[1-6]" > >> > >>CHARMAP="UTF-8" > >> > >>CODESET="Lat15" > >># Make no font changes to allow scrollback of boot screen > >> > >>VIDEOMODE= > >> > >># The following is an example how to use a braille font > >># FONT='lat9w-08.psf.gz brl-8x8.psf' > >>FONTFACE="Terminus" > >>FONTSIZE="10x20" > >>$ > >> > >>That sets the default for logging in. Changing the font like this will > >>clear the scrollback buffer (ie everything before the current screenfull) > >>if you are someone who looks at booting messages. > >> > >>I think Terminus comes from package xfonts-terminus. If that's not the > > > >console-setup-linux provides the .psf files. In all his "playing about" > >I'm surprised the OP didn't test them with > > > > dpkg-reconfigure console-setup > > > >>case then post again and I will investigate. (I have a lot of fonts > >>installed for both VCs and X, which I do use.) Of course, you can use > >>whatever set of fonts you want, but I find Terminus very clear. > >>However, it's not well endowed for Unicode, so you may want something > >>different. > >> > >>Those aliased commands set each VC independently BTW. > > > >Thanks for the detail. Something to try in the future. > > > > > > -- >
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| From | Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh@kathe.in> |
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| Date | 2016-09-05 20:30 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <se6OC-7sU-19@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| In reply to | #171792 |
On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 06:36:05PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > I'm surprised the OP didn't test them with > > dpkg-reconfigure console-setup This worked. I now have a sane console setting. :) Thanks for that tip Brian. ~Mayuresh
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